"None but a poet can write a tragedy. For tragedy is nothing less than pain transmuted into exaltation by the alchemy of poetry."

-- Edith Hamilton

#Pain Quotes #Writing Quotes #Tragedy Quotes

“When I came back, I wasn't looking past this year. This is a bonus for me. I just wish it would have turned out a little better, but we all don't get what we want all the time.”
“What will follow will not be a repeat of any other conflict. It will be of a force and scope and scale that has been beyond what has been seen before.”
“That said, the question remains: how to strike the balance between free speech and mutual respect in this mixed-up world, both blessed and cursed with instant communication? We should not fight fire with fire, threats with threats.”

Source : "Our media must give Muslims the chance to debate with each other" by Timothy Garton Ash, www.theguardian.com. February 9, 2006.
“But if it's true it's beautiful. Truth is beautiful. And so my whole work is about what amounts to a reverence for life itself.”

Source : "Roy DeCarava, Harlem Insider Who Photographed Ordinary Life, Dies at 89" by Randy Kennedy, www.nytimes.com. October 28, 2009.
“If the photographer is not a discoverer, then he is not an artist.”
“Statistics is the art of lying by means of figures.”

Source : Marriage at the Crossroads Chapter II (p. 20)
“Love as a relation between men and women was ruined by the desire to make sure of the legitimacy of children.”
“Growing up is never straight forward. There are moments when everything is fine, and other moments where you realize that there are certain memories that you'll never get back, and certain people that are going to change, and the hardest part is knowing that there's nothing you can do except watch them.”

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